The Low-Rez Game Jam!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 31, 2016

Think you can make a video game that fits in a 64×64 grid? In a couple of weeks? If so, then Friday is your day: Low Rez Game Jam, April 1st – 17th.  Show off what you can do in only 64×64 pixels! Honestly, I kinda dig the limits on this one. The 32 x 32 […]

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Frayed Knights 2: The Rats Are Back!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 30, 2016

You knew this, didn’t you? The Rats of Nom would be back in Frayed Knights 2? It’s be kind of lame if they weren’t. The funny thing is that the whole “Rats of Nom / Farmer Brown’s Cellar” quest in Frayed Knights: The Skull of S’makh-Daon was really a set-up for a joke that doesn’t […]

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FanX 2016: The hangover. I mean, the debriefing.

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 28, 2016

I spent the weekend at the Salt Lake City Comic Con FanXperience (or FanX), and had a blast. I was exhausted, I sold books but not as many as I would like, bought way too much stuff (mainly books and T-shirts), and I only went to one major celebrity panel (Alex Kingston of E.R. and […]

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A Brief Report from the FanX 2016 Floor

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 25, 2016

The first day of FanX has been a lot of fun. I should probably work more than I did today. I don’t want to take any books home with me. 🙂 We got to meet the main cast of Mythica. I didn’t really get to talk to Melanie Stone much, but everyone else was incredibly […]

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Off We Go… to FanX!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 23, 2016

Tomorrow through Saturday is Salt Lake Comic Con FanXperience 2016. I’ll be there. Signing books ‘n stuff. And having a blast. I will have paper copies of the anthologies from Xchyler Publishing for sale (Mechanized Masterpieces 2, Beyond the Wail, and Terra Mechanica).  I expect I’ll be at the booth at least half of the […]

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GOG.COM Insomnia Sale

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 22, 2016

If you haven’t already seen this yet… GOG.COM has a “Sleepy Insomnia” sale with one game at a time going on sale at a time, until they have “run out” Great stuff if you have games that you are waiting for. You have to be fast, though. They only sell a few of them at […]

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Frayed Knights: Things Coming Together

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 21, 2016

While it was from my era, I never really watched the TV show “The A-Team.” I think I saw one full episode. Some things are a little too ridiculous even for a kid to suspend disbelief. But the catchphrase from one of the characters stuck even without me watching the show… “I love it when […]

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Navigating a Negative Review Crapstorm

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 18, 2016

This is how reviews generally work on the Internet. Which is more of a magnification of how word-of-mouth has worked since the dawn of language: (Image from Happy Monday Comics) Again, this is human nature. My brother once called the number on the “How is my driving?” bumper sticker to report how conscientious a particular […]

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2016 IGF Awards

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 17, 2016

The 18th annual Independent Games Festival is happening this week, and the awards are in. Top honors went to Her Story, which won the Excellence in Narrative award as well as the Seumus McNally Grand Prize. Fan favorite Undertale won the audience award… not that it needs the cash, from what I have seen. 🙂 More […]

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Ultima V, Publisher Contract Dangers, and Why We Needed Indie

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 16, 2016

There were a whole lot of reasons why I was an evangelist for the indie revolution. Just making sure that game developers had a reasonable path to create and distribute their creations without having to go through the giant gatekeepers was a big one. Reducing the barriers to entry was huge. But there was another […]

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Consistent Quantity of Sufficient Quality, and the Long Tail

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 14, 2016

Across the board, entertainment industries are overwhelmingly hit-driven. Super high-quality and super innovation both have a chance of knocking things out of the park in a HUGE way. Combine with some luck (the right game at the right time at the right price) and / or excellent marketing (sometimes fan-driven), and the rewards are tremendous. […]

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Frayed Knights: The Old School of Wizardry and the Wizard War

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 11, 2016

The defining event in the history of Kalderia, the setting for the Frayed Knights series – was the Wizard War. In a nutshell, it was a war that humanity – and their allied races – lost. Even though it was technically considered a win, when warfare wipes out a bigger percentage of the population than the […]

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Captain America vs. Iron Man vs. Batman vs. Superman

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 10, 2016

Dat costume, wow. Wassa problem, can’t see in the dark, Petey? Aside from that, this looks pretty awesome. It’s funny how this trailer does its storytelling job. It sets up character, conflict, and escalation. It resonates, largely because this conflict – like the one the original comic book storyline was based on – is a […]

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Computer beats Go grandmaster for the first time in history

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 9, 2016

Wow. It happened. ‘WE MADE HISTORY’: Google’s DeepMind AI just beat a human world champion at Go It’s only the first of a five-game tournament. But still, this is a huge development. Much bigger, in my opinion, than Deep Blue’s victories over Gary Kasparov 20 years ago. Why? At that point in the 1990s, Chess […]

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Book Impressions: Servant of the Crown

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 8, 2016

Romance novels aren’t really my thing. At least, I don’t suppose so… I think I could count the number that I’ve read on one hand and have fingers left over. Novels with romance, sure. Romance movies, sure, a few. Romantic comedies, more than a few. But straight-up romance novels, not so much. The thing with […]

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Movie Impression: Dudes & Dragons (formerly Dragon Warriors)

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 7, 2016

This weekend, I watched Dudes & Dragons, formerly entitled Dragon Warriors, a locally-produced fantasy / comedy film project that I backed as a crowdfunder a long time ago. Their agreement with their distributor prohibited them from sending out the movies to backers before the film went public, which totally sucked from my perspective, but I […]

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